Hexagon strengthens portfolio with HARD-LINE acquisition

Hexagon’s Mining division has acquired Canadian-based HARD-LINE, a global leader in mine automation, remote control technology and mine production optimization. The move will enhance Hexagon’s life-of-mine technology stack, and will particularly complement its HxGN Underground Mining, HxGN Autonomous Mining, and HxGN MineProtect offerings. Full Story.

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Hexagon, NVIDIA to transform industrial digital twin solutions

Photo: Hexagon Hexagon and computing company NVIDIA have announced a collaboration that will enable industrial digital twin solutions that unite reality capture, AI, simulation, data analysis and visualization to deliver real-time comparisons of real- and virtual-world models. “Every industry is racing to digitalize their physical processes for the next wave of advanced automation,” said Rev Lebaredian, vice president of Omniverse…

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Minnovare intros Development Optimiser

Hexagon arm Minnovare has released its new system, Development Optimiser, to increase accuracy, reduce over-break and increase drilling advance. The new release combined hardware with a digital platform applicable to all development drill makes and models, and per Minnovare can lead to optimal blasts and offer consistent blasting outcomes regardless of operator experience. Included is a wireless system interface featuring…

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News from SME 2022: Hexagon releases GeoSlate

The mining arm of Hexagon has released HxGN MinePlan GeoSlate, a mobile geological drill hole logging application for field data collection. Using a field-ready mobile tablet, users can quickly and easily compile field drill hole data to simplify a geologist’s workflow. The company said the new releases, built for optimal performance, can save time by removing the headache of configuring…

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Hexagon to equip Volvo OTRs with autonomous safety

Part of what is proving to be a busy week for Hexagon at MINExpo 2021 is the announcement that it has inked a deal with Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) that will put Hexgon Level-9 intervention technology on the OEM’s off-road mining vehicles. The companies said the newly announced arrangement will empower both of its customer bases to fast-track their…

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